Holdaway Reaches 2018 Experience Curling Classic Quarters

SKIP
Steve
Holdaway

Third
Zackary
Wise

Second
Stewart
Yaxley

Lead
Mike
Chuipka

Steve Holdaway (Montreal, QC) qualified for the 2018 Experience Curling Classic playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-5 against Jean-Michel Menard (Gatineau, QC).

Holdaway finished 2-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Holdaway defeated Jeffrey Stewart (Montreal, QC) 7-5, then went on to lose 6-3 against Alek Bedard (Montreal, QC). Holdaway responded with a 6-1 win over Alex Berube (Gatineau, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

Holdaway earned 5.034 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Experience Curling Classic, moving up 65 spots the World Ranking Standings into 219th place overall with 10.463 total points. Holdaway ranks 190th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.282 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2018: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Jim Stewart, Dan deWaard, Daniel Caron
Gatineau, QC
2017: Jean-Sebastien Roy
Robert Desjardins, Jean-Sebastien Roy, Pierre-Luc Morissette, Thierry Fournier
Chicoutimi, QC
2016: Jean-Sebastien Roy
Jean-Sebastien Roy, Jasmin Gibeau, Dan deWaard, Vincent Bourget
Thurso, QC

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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